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I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I'm a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It's definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it's great to see something that isn't Reddit growing in popularity!

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[โ€“] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lots of problems here... I'm an experienced Mastodon user, and I have to say that I correctly predicted my experience with Lemmy.

It's not optimized for mobile, it's a lot of work to find what you want, and whereas Mastodon seems like an improvement on Twitter, this seems like a step back from Reddit.

Reddit also has an issue with finding subreddits, but Google indexes it and you can pretty easily find and subscribe to things just using keywords.

We need better app UIs ASAP, that make basic functions obvious and easy. It's a platform that probably does great on PC but I'm stuck with Jerboa, and it's really killing my enjoyment.

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[โ€“] Ferdinand_Cassius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] mjohanning@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

That probably also depends on what instance your own, I am guessing. A lot of them are experiencing such a large and unprecedented influx of new users, it's often hard for them to cope with the existing hardware they're running on.

[โ€“] Evolone@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Iโ€™ve been bouncing between Lemmy and Tildes to see which I prefer. I am having a hard time with deciding. I vastly prefer how Lemmy has the reply to a post box right underneath the body of the post, whereas Tildes requires you to scroll to the bottom of ALL comments to make your own reply.

I like that Lemmy has the ability to create a ton of different communities and sub-communities. Tildes has like ~music, but nothing below that (like ~metal or ~indie). So Lemmy seems to have more of a curated community feel.

I think I like the UI of Tildes more, as of now, but Mlem is a promising app (I just wish there were notifications for comments to my posts/replies on the app. Maybe someday!)

[โ€“] oceanic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

As a Digg and Reddit refugee I can only say: "let's goooooooo!!!!"

[โ€“] Agility0971@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't like the sidebar with rules. It removed the horizontal space from content if you keep scrolling.

[โ€“] cdbob@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm enjoying the smaller subs the most. Many subs I used to frequent have just gotten too big. It's nice to be able to post in a sub and have it feel like it used to.

[โ€“] bykle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'd be interested in navigation shortcuts, similar to RES. J/K to move up and down, X to expand post content. Made it very easy to navigate Reddit. Not sure if that's a thing on Lemmy or not...

[โ€“] xaon_rider92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's a little confusing, the whole fediverse concept takes some time to learn and understand, but I think I'm getting it. I tried Mastodon before and couldn't get used to/understand it, but lemmy feels more my thing. Given some time, with more people joining and more communities forming, this could be great!

[โ€“] nrezcm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It has a ton of potential. I really hope it takes off because even if it doesn't replace Reddit immediately it's good to have another place to communicate with others. I have a tech background so it was fairly easy to figure out. I think once folks get used to it that it will be no more difficult than other social media sites. Mobile users will probably have the hardest time adapting but who knows.

[โ€“] uglyfurniture@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm mostly a mobile user (my app of choice was Boost on Android) and even though I'm still learning how this all works it's been a fairly similar experience, at least using Jerboa

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[โ€“] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Comment syncing to my instance is a problem. I get posts but comments, not so much.

[โ€“] sussy_gussy@wirebase.org 2 points 1 year ago

I'm having a great time. Lemmy is a little bit harder than Reddit but I have been on Mastodon for some time now so I know how federation works. The only thing about Lemmy I don't like is that it feels kinda buggy and unpolished as it is very early stage and the same posts often reappear. But I like the community and it actually seems to be working so that's pretty cool!

[โ€“] poliverso@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Attention,

I remind you that to facilitate our work as administrators of the feddit.it instance, this is expressly reserved for Italian-speaking users. if your reference language is English, I therefore advise you to cancel your account and create one in an English-speaking instance

The only two communities that deal with medicine are these: https://lemmy.ml/c/medicine and https://mander.xyz/c/medicine In any case, you can monitor any new communities of your interest with the tool made available by the administrators of feddit.de https://browse.feddit.de/

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[โ€“] aqua@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Just did it.

[โ€“] apis@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Enjoyable so far. Feel a bit mystified, but it always takes me ages to figure out how to use new things.

Currently messing around with a browser extension to change the appearance and layout, as I had been finding that a bit of a hurdle.

[โ€“] IEatChickens@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

I like it, and it isn't as complicated as it initially seemed to me.

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